[13] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
that they really belonged to a pair of sessile arms. Probably the tentac- 
ular arms, when extended, had been cut off so close to their contractile 
bases that their stumps had afterwards become contracted within their 
basal pouches, and were therefore overlooked. He adds that the body 
was 3 feet broad (doubtless it was much flattened from its natural form), 
and that the measurements were made while the body lay upon uneven 
ground, so that its exact length could not be easily ascertained, and 
that the caudal fin had been cut off at its base. As the tail-fins of Nos. 
5 and 14 were about one-fifth the length of the rest of the body and the 
head together, this specimen, if-belonging to either of those species, 
should have been about 12 feet from the base of the arms to the tip of 
the tail. 
The large sucker in my possession is 1 inch in diameter across the 
denticulated rim, and in form and structure agrees closely with those 
described and figured by me from the tentacular arms of Nos. 4, 5, and 
14 (Plate IV, figures 1, 4, and Plate IX, figures 1, 1 a). 
The jaws are still attached together, in their natural position, by the 
cartilages. They agree very closely in form with the large jaws of Archi- 
teuthis princeps V.(No. 10), figured on Plate XI, but they are about one- 
tenth smaller. 
No. 14.—CATALINA SPECIMEN, 1877. (Architeuthis princeps.) 
Plates VIII-X. 
A nearly perfect specimen of a large squid was found cast ashore, after 
a severe gale, at Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, September 22, 
1877. It was living when found. It was exhibited for two or three . 
days at Saint John’s, and subsequently was carried in brine to New 
York, where it was purchased by Reiche & Brother, for the New York 
Aquarium. There I had an opportunity to examine it very soon after 
its arrival.* I am also indebted to the proprietors of the aquarium for 
some of the loose suckers. Other suckers from this specimen were sent 
to me from Newfoundland, by the Rev. M. Harvey. Although some- 
what mutilated, and not in a very good state of preservation when re- 
ceived, it is of great interest, being, without doubt, the largest and best 
Specimen ever preserved. The Catalina specimen, when fresh, }t was 9.5 
feet from tip of tail to base of arms; circumference of body, 7 feet; cir- 
cumference of head, 4 feet; length of tentacular arms, 30 feet; length of 
*See American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xiv, p. 425, November, 1877. When 
examined by me it was loose in a tank of alcohol. Dr. J. B. Holder gave me valuable 
assistance in making this examination, and also made one of the drawings of the caudal 
fin. It was afterwards “prepared” for exhibition by a taxidermist, who misplaced 
the arms, siphon, and other parts, and inserted two large, round, flat, red eyes close 
together on the top of the head! Continued soaking in strong alcohol had reduced its 
dimensions to about one-half their former measurements when examined by me twog 
years later. 
t Measurements of the freshly-caught specimen were made by the Rey. M. Harvey, 
at Saint John’s, and communicated to me. 
